LOOK AT ALL THESE JOURNALISTS (AND OTHER NERDS) CRACKING JOKES ABOUT OUR CHERISHED DEMOCRACY: “Normal people with actual lives could not care less. They are smart enough to understand that choosing a party leader in Congress is part of our cherished democratic system of government. Politics nerds, meanwhile, can’t stop talking about it and trying to impress each other with their witty quips and comparisons to sports and pop culture. This is their Super Bowl[.]”
Archive for 2023
January 5, 2023
ELISABETH FINCH: The Grey’s Anatomy Liar Confesses it All.
In March, Finch’s grandiose ruse, which included a head-spinning web of deceptions that started with a fabricated debilitating cancer diagnosis, abortion and kidney loss stretching back nearly a decade, was first made public in a story by The Ankler after Disney (whose ABC broadcasts Grey’s Anatomy) and production company Shondaland had put one of their best-known writers, now 44, on leave. Even in an industry famous for celebrating and accepting fabulists, charlatans and con artists, the nature and extent of Finch’s lies crossed an unspoken line. No, she hadn’t physically hurt anyone like, say, Harvey Weinstein or Kevin Spacey. But Finch, by fabricating and dramatizing huge swaths of her life story, broke the trust of one of the most successful writers’ rooms in Hollywood history — and made fools of Shonda Rhimes, the town’s most powerful TV producer, and Disney, the most family-friendly maker and distributor of TV in the world.
Of her time at Grey’s, days where she taped a dummy catheter to her arm and shaved her hair to feign that she was undergoing chemotherapy, she now says, “I really miss it. I miss my fellow writers. It’s like a family and… one of the things that makes it so hard is that they did rally around a false narrative that I gave.”
Today? She’s an absolute pariah. The mere mention of her name in certain quarters of the industry causes visible revulsion. Her phone doesn’t ring. Her emails go unanswered. Her wife left her, family members disowned her and she’s no longer allowed to see the children she helped rear for several years. She fills her day taking long walks and talking to her therapist. And she’s sitting down with me, the reporter who first broke the story about her lies, to tell her story. This time, she says, a real one. Because there is nothing else she can do.
“What I did was wrong,” she says. “ Not okay. F*cked up. All the words.”
If she’s out of work in Hollywood, she sounds like she would fit in absolutely perfectly in DC in 2024: Let’s Face It: Joe Biden’s Serial Lies and Embellishments About His Biography Are Shamelessly Weird.
SUCH A HAPPY TIME, EVERYONE JUST LIVING IN THE MOMENT, NOT A CELLPHONE IN SIGHT: Medieval murder victim was killed by multiple sword blows to the head in ‘case of raw violence.’
‘EVERYTHING TRIPLED:’ Rapper Cardi B Slams Biden Economy.
Rapper Cardi B on Wednesday gave a profanity-filled rant about unprecedented inflation under President Joe Biden.
“When I go to the f*cking supermarket … I’m seeing that everything tripled” in price, the rapper said in a Twitter video. “Lettuce was, like, two dollars a couple of months ago, and now it’s, like, f*cking seven. … If I think that sh*t is crazy, I could only imagine what middle-class people or people in the ’hood [are] motherf*cking thinking!”
“I do want anybody that’s responsible [for] these f*cking prices to put that sh*t the f*ck down,” she concluded.
Cardi B, meet Cardi B! Joe Biden, President Of Cardi B(abylon). Biden gave Cardi B (whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar) an interview (of sorts) that was published by Elle magazine on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in August of 2020.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Your tax dollars are paying for woke reeducation at NASA, the VA, and more.
NEW CONSERVATIVE MANTRA: MAKE AMERICA MORE LIKE SCANDINAVIA! And the least feminist nation in the world is… Denmark? A poll of more than 25,000 people in 23 major countries found that just one in six Danes consider themselves a feminist.
The story’s from 2019, so it’s not exactly news, but it might be a model.
READER FAVORITE: Klipsch Heritage Wireless The One II Tabletop Stereo Walnut. #CommissionEarned
WHY ARE DEMOCRATS SO FULL OF BIGOTRY? ‘Grotesque, racist rhetoric’: Dan Bishop defends Donalds against race-based attacks.
SHE’S NOTICING THINGS YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO NOTICE: Cardi B rant about Bidenflation went viral on social media and it’s perfect. “It’s not the first time she’s weighed in on the rising cost of living in the real world. Her tone has sharpened now and she’s not holding back. . . . Anyone who has shopped in a grocery store lately knows that the prices are crazy high on lots of products, especially on basic items like eggs, bread, dairy products, and cereal. These aren’t luxury purchases, easily erased from a shopping list. These are products the average person stocks in the kitchen to cook for their family or themselves. Cardi B referenced the price of lettuce. Fresh produce is up, too. That salad you enjoy for lunch or with dinner is going to cost you. There is no escaping Bidenflation. Cardi mentions that her weekly grocery costs are ‘tripling up.’ . . . Elections have consequences, as Cardi B is learning. Those who voted for Joe Biden brought Bidenflation on us. His policies and rampant spending bills, supported by the Democrats in control of Congress over the course of the last two years, ramped up inflation to historical levels. The previous administration handed Biden an economy that had no inflation to speak of and an economy poised to quickly recover from the damage done by the pandemic. Biden quickly turned the economy into the wrong direction and that is what we are dealing with today. No one, no matter how wealthy, is escaping Bidenflation.”
Yep.
SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: LA Times: White supremacy is a rainbow coalition.
TO BE FAIR, IT’S ALSO A CENSORSHIP OPERATION: How the Southern Poverty Law Center Morphed Into a Gun Control Advocacy Operation.
WHEN YOU’VE LOST TWITTER’S WOKE ENFORCEMENT SQUAD…: ‘We don’t do this’: Even Twitter’s censors rejected Adam Schiff’s censorship request.
A BIT LIKE THE NY TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST AND ETCETERA: Russia Reports All The News That Fits
…In 2022 Putin’s political fortunes took a turn for the worse when his invasion of Ukraine quickly failed with the loss of thousands of armored vehicles, most of the combat unit officers and such high troop losses that he found a growing number of Russians turning against him. If not stabilized or reversed, that shift in public opinion could prove fatal for his continued ability to rule Russia.
Putin’s solution was to order the dezinformatsiya operation to cooperate with the VGTRK (All-Russia State Television and Radio Company) to convince Russians that the Ukraine operation was not a failure but had succeeded in stalling and exposing a secret NATO plan to weaken Russia and render it unable to rebuild the Russian empire and make Russia great again. Or at least keep Putin in power.
Some Kremlin context for understanding Twitter, the CDC and the FBI in the pre-Musk era.
CHAZZ PALMINTERI: ‘Art Can’t Be Safe.’ “I write what’s in my heart, that’s it. I don’t mean to hurt anyone, but I write what’s in my heart.”
IT’S GETTING WORSE: The Escalating Space Debris Crisis.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: A potentially revolutionary solar harvester just left the planet.
WELL, YEAH — BUT WHAT IS WHO STILL LYING ABOUT? WHO Director Says China Is Lying About COVID Deaths and Withholding Vital Genetic Data.
WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Scientists develop a cancer vaccine to simultaneously kill and prevent brain cancer.
ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: ‘Whiteness is going to have an end date’ says Rutgers professor of gender and Africana studies.
JOHN NOLTE: Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street Review: Portrait of Another Spectacular Government Failure.
Madoff’s family, who knew nothing about his crimes, were also victims, and with the help of the vicious media, Madoff annihilated that family. He also annihilated countless families guilty of nothing more than working hard and following the rules. The Monster of Wall Street doesn’t forget them.
If there’s a takeaway from this fascinating and tragic story, it’s that our government sucks. It’s all so broken, so corrupt that for two decades, a world-famous man said he was investing billions of dollars, didn’t invest even one red cent, and got away with it. Even after a portfolio manager named Harry Markopolos laid it all out for them on some five occasions, the SEC let Madoff get away with it.
The federal government has one job — to protect our rights. From Madoff to the wide-open southern border, we can all see how that’s working out.
Flashback: Reminder: Bernie Madoff Donated Mostly to Democrats.
As did most of the people who trusted Madoff with their money.